Blue Triangle vs. ControlUp

Amazing help and knowledge has been assembled, but Blue Triangle Group's customer service is exceptional. Because they make us feel like the most important customer every time we speak, they have a genuine belief in our success. You can count on the support team to keep an eye on your account and offer fresh ideas to our discussions.

Incentivized

An environment where visibility of general performance metrics isn't currently done or is done with a system that is difficult to use (which was our case). An environment where resource allocation decisions need to be made (e.g. how much RAM and CPU to allocate to VM pools). An environment where a troubleshooting tool is needed (e.g. to answer the question, "Why is this person experiencing poor performance right now?")

• Ease of usability.
• Very responsive to our business requirements.
• Increase your business revenue.

• The triggers are very flexible and can be configured to alert on things from events in sessions to hardware failures. Script actions are what they sound like. They are scripts that can be created and run on demand or tied to a trigger. One example is that if a hard drive is low on space we have a script to clean up certain things on the drive.
• Script actions are supported by the ControlUp community. Community members can submit scripts that are reviewed by ControlUp and approved. This means more script are added over time.
• ControlUp support and sales support has been great. Our sales engineer is always willing to jump on and help us with configuration issues and standard support is quick to respond and are good at resolving issues.

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• Since percentage change is used instead of a real-time shift in comparison charts, they are more difficult to read and evaluate quickly.
• Unlike other website performance monitoring solutions, we are unable to compare data from different time periods.
• The portal's interface may use some cleaning up.

Incentivized

• It seems that there is a gradual transition occurring from one interface (a local program) to another (Web). This creates confusion at times.
• ScoutBees module has a problem with our version of Horizon, so we can't do a login test
• The local program for ControlUp uses a lot of resources
• The training session focus on very large environments, which we aren't. Might be good to offer SMB sessions separately.

blackfire.io can be easier to analyze for the consumer, but overall get the same result.

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I feel all these products are good and have their strengths but for me it came down to two categories. How easy is it to find issues and cost. It seemed to me that the easiest to use is ControlUp and eG. Price broke down to ControlUp and SysTrack being lower than Goliath and eG.

Incentivized

• The portal's ease of use, regular updates, and the feature roadmap all seem to prioritize the end user and actual use cases
• Having a better understanding of where my site's visitors are going has led to beneficial outcomes for my business

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• its licensing cost is a bit on high

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